Nurse-or Surgeon-led Follow-up After Rectal Cancer

Rectal Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

Nurse-or Surgeon-led Follow-up After Rectal Cancer: a Randomised Trial.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01045200
• Other study ID #: DNR 01-498
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 6, 2010
• Last updated: January 7, 2010
• Start date: January 2002
• Est. completion date: September 2009

Study information

• Verified date: January 2002
• Source: Centrallasarettet Västerås
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Sweden: Regional Ethical Review Board
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Follow-up programmes consume a large amount of resources with less time for the surgeon to take on new patients. The aim of this randomised study was to compare patient satisfaction, resource utilisation, and medical safety in patients curatively operated for rectal cancer that were followed-up by a surgeon or a nurse.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 110
• Est. completion date: September 2009
• Est. primary completion date: October 2004
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 19 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients curatively operated for rectal cancer.

• Patients had to be more than 18 years of age and written and oral informed consent was obtained.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Those with psychiatric disorders, dementia and whose general condition had deteriorated with an expected survival of less than six months were not eligible.

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Rectal Cancer
• Rectal Neoplasms

Intervention

Other:
• Comparison of follow-up
Comparison of follow-up by nurse or surgeon after rectal cancer surgery

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Sweden	Departement of Surgery, Central Hospital	Västerås

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Centrallasarettet Västerås

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Sweden, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Patient satisfaction		At each patient visit, i.e. every 6 months during the first three years than every year after rectal cancer surgery.	No
Secondary	Resource utilisation		at each patient visit, i.e. every 6 months during the first three years than every year after rectal cancer surgery.	No